Module Description
This 15 credit module aims to provide an understanding of the music industry in its legal and commercial context, having regard to the legislation and common law applicable to it and also the commercial pressures that shape the incentives and behaviours of parties to typical commercial agreements.
On successful completion of this module students will be able to:
- - Understand the practical and legal considerations relevant to the music industry;
- Analyse how technological innovation both shapes the music industry and influences the regulatory environment applicable to it
- Apply the relevant law to and be familiar with contractual frameworks and practices typical of the music business;
- Identify and understand the key legal principles and legislative measures relevant to the generation, ownership and exploitation of music
- Identify with the relevant framework of intellectual property right protection applicable in the United Kingdom to creative works and its impact on the ownership of rights in music, their transfer and exploitation and on the distribution, performance and enjoyment of private property in music in a changing media environment
- Understand how common law and statute address issues arising in an evolving market for music and their interaction with musicians' self-promotion and the distribution and consumption of their musical work
- Reflect on their participation in class-based exercises and their learning experience
- Demonstrate skills of research using primary and secondary legal sources, read and accurately summarise reported cases and primary legislation.
This 15 credit module aims to provide an understanding of the music industry in its legal and commercial context, having regard to the legislation and common law applicable to it and also the commercial pressures that shape the incentives and behaviours of parties to typical commercial agreements.
On successful completion of this module students will be able to:
- - Understand the practical and legal considerations relevant to the music industry;
- Analyse how technological innovation both shapes the music industry and influences the regulatory environment applicable to it
- Apply the relevant law to and be familiar with contractual frameworks and practices typical of the music business;
- Identify and understand the key legal principles and legislative measures relevant to the generation, ownership and exploitation of music
- Identify with the relevant framework of intellectual property right protection applicable in the United Kingdom to creative works and its impact on the ownership of rights in music, their transfer and exploitation and on the distribution, performance and enjoyment of private property in music in a changing media environment
- Understand how common law and statute address issues arising in an evolving market for music and their interaction with musicians' self-promotion and the distribution and consumption of their musical work
- Reflect on their participation in class-based exercises and their learning experience
- Demonstrate skills of research using primary and secondary legal sources, read and accurately summarise reported cases and primary legislation.